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Surface Science and Technology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.8), WoS ESCI. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 2097-3624Verify ISSN ↗2731-7838Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals and Alloys | 40 / 182 | 78th | Q1 |
| Surfaces, Coatings and Films | 43 / 141 | 69th | Q2 |
| Materials Science (miscellaneous) | 87 / 256 | 66th | Q2 |
| Ceramics and Composites | 48 / 133 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.8.
Surface Science and Technology is Q1 in Metals and Alloys (rank 40 of 182), Q2 in Surfaces, Coatings and Films (rank 43 of 141) and Q2 in Materials Science (miscellaneous) (rank 87 of 256), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Surface Science and Technology is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 5.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.077, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 11.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Surface Science and Technology is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 2097-3624 and its online ISSN is 2731-7838.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Surface Science and Technology has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 5.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #21 of 164 Scopus journals in Metals and Alloys.
Surface Science and Technology published 43 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (84%), India (4%) and Japan (2.5%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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